Comments on: Lucy and Me

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:02:33 +0000

Ok I have a Lucy but mine is a beagle/bassett hound mix whose head is orange. I also have a black lab/pitt mix whose name is Starbucks–she’s black, bold and beautiful–though her mother is white, sarcastic and sassy! I think your Lucy is cute and I’m glad you are enjoying the early stages of puppy parenting. Blog all this sweet stuff when Lucy shoes your door, your motorcycle seat, your leahter recliner, your Bible (ate it like Ezekiel did the scrolls!), your devotional–you get the idea. But through it all you will learn as I have that these dogs teach us so much even if we really don’t give a rats ass about how much patience we are lacking–they teach us–like it or not. My dogs are rescue dogs, but not because I’m some dog loving fool who is out to be on the board of directors for the humane society–no I was just trying to be a good single mom to my boys and let them have this dog one of the members of the church I serve had acquired due to someone dumping it out on their farm. So now I’m stuck. But as much as I’m not a dog lover at heart like so many other wonderful people are–they both follow me everywhere. I guess they think I do love them when really I am usually mad at them for something they’ve strown all over the yard…and yet they follow me…oh the hound of heaven…He never lets up.
happy dog trails to you Don!

By: Christy Tennant

Christy Tennant — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:01:06 +0000

Don, I’m a bit behind in reading your blog, but just read this today. I inherited an 8 year old Sheltie, Jonah, when my brother moved to England to attend Oxford a little over a year ago. He (Jonah) came to stay with me “for six weeks or so” and we fell in love – I can’t imagine not having him around! He makes me laugh so much, reminds me how important it is to play (somehow I had forgotten that), how healthy long walks are, how much I love morning cuddles, and how great it feels to be missed (he howls like nobody’s business whenever I leave – I can hear him all the way down the block, and when I come home, the first thing I see is his face looking through the window). All this is to say, welcome to the WONDERFUL world of dog lovers. I leave you with a poem I wrote last month:

DEVOTION
How I wish
I loved my God
as my dog
loves his.

By: Christina Marie

Christina Marie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:46:23 +0000

thank you! these thoughts are very moving and i can’t wait to read the new book

greetings from germany

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:30:12 +0000

Your words are beautiful. Don’t let anyone tell you different.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:56:26 +0000

Don, cute dog. She really is beautiful, and full of energy. I have a Chocolate Lab myself. His name is Gabe and he is 5 so he is beginning to slow down.

Anyway, Merry Christmas.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:27:10 +0000

Since a true celebration of Christmas seems to be quite dead and gone, in the sense that we’ve settled for celebrating the american religion of consumerism, it’s quite alright with me that you wrote a happy winter post instead of the customary sap. Jesus didn’t come so we could sign cheesy christmas cards and send them to all of our friends with perfect family photos inside, eat ourselves into torpid hibernation, or max out our credit cards so we can fill our house and our friend’s houses with more junk.
But that’s a boring rant….besides, what do I know? My frontal lobe isn’t fully developed, apparently. (By the way, thanks, Sae – now I’m suddenly afraid of turning 30. How am I going to even recognize my new rational self??)

But I’ve gotten distracted; I was commenting to say thank you. Lately, I’ve been rethinking a lot of why I do what I do – so encouragement towards purer motives is always welcome. Really, it’s all very simple in the end, despite my efforts to confuse the issue.

Good luck with that sweet Lucy of yours. Sounds like she’s stolen your heart already.
*lifts glass*
Here’s to life lived just for the joy of it!

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:52:19 +0000

And Alicia Paulson has some really lovely pics of your fair, snowy city this week:

http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/posie_gets_cozy/2008/12/christmastime-a.html

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:49:48 +0000

Love hearing about it all, and Portland sounds like a wonderland right now, except for all the actual cold part…

…so my Christmas advice is that the crate (or kennel) is your friend (and Lucy’s!!). People mock us for “putting that dog in that box,” but no one laughs when they see how happy and well-adjusted our (yellow) lab is.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:29:04 +0000

Merry Christmas Don & Lucy. I hope and pray that you have a wonderfully blessed Christmas and New Year. You have blessed me greatly with your honest writing.

John

By: Kit Palmer

Kit Palmer — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:58:26 +0000

No snow here in Charleston, but we’re having our own “Lucy & Me” experience as well:
http://kitpalmer.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/meetgeorgia/
Actually, it more like “Marley & Me”, but that’s a story for another time! Love you musings Don (as always)! Merry Christmas!